Orange Unit 3

Lesson Plans Orange Unit 3


Beginning Week of 8/27/2012

Essential Question:Do we find or create our true selves?

Read The Great Kapok Tree
Read Yanomami
Take AR quiz

Lesson 1 Unit Launch T170-T173

Objectives:

• Evaluate speaker’s message
• Engage in Discussion
• Respond and interpret visuals

P 170-171
Discuss the EQ
Discuss Quotes
Analyze Visuals – interpret and respond
Critical Viewing-Background knowledge

P171 Analyze Cartoon
Analyze and Debate

Lesson 2 How to Read Short Stories T174-T177

Objectives:

• Examine Point of View (POV)
• Make Inferences

P174
Intro POV
Read then explain a POV
Discuss POV – The Great Kapok Tree

P175 Connect Reading to Real Life
Intro Inferences

P177 Experiment

Lesson 3 Prepare to Read T178

Objectives:

• Learn New Vocabulary
• Use Strategy-Relate Words
• Activate Prior Knowledge

P 178 EQ-Activate prior know Teenager’s appearance
Intro new vocabulary

Assignment: WB pp 80-81

Lesson 4 Before Reading "Heartbeat" T179

Objective:

• Make Inferences
• Analyze First Person POV

P 179
POV
Make Inferences

Assignment: WB p 82-83



Before Reading "Heartbeat" T180-T189
Objectives:

• Examine the writer
• Connect to the author
• Identify Writer’s Purpose/Perspective
• Analyze Visuals – Interpret and Respond

Pp 180-181
Read Author Biography
Discuss Author’s perspective and purpose
Analyze Visuals – Interpret and Respond

Read "Heartbeat" T180-T189

Objective:

• Note reading supports
• Strategy-Contextual analysis
• Make Inferences
• Analyze POV
• Monitor Comprehension
• Analyze Visuals

Pp 182-188 Read Text

Pp 184 Monitor Comprehension

Link Vocabulary and Concepts
T185

Assignment: Return to text – Margin Question

Content Area Vocabulary-Health
T187

P 189 Analyze

Assignment: WB p 84

Read "Zits" T188

Lesson 5 Before Reading "Behind the Bulk" T190

Objective:

• Make Inferences
• Identify POV-Third Person

P 190 Discuss Inferences and POV

Read "Behind the Bulk" T191-T194

Objective:

• Make Inferences
• Analyze POV-Third Person
• Respond and Interpret – Text Features: Diagrams-Sidebars
• Respond to Literature

Pp 191-193 Read Text

P 194 Analyze

Pp 193 Monitor Comprehension

Content Area Connection-Explore Media Influences
T193
Content Area Connection-Research and Graph Attitudes
T193

Assignment: Return to text – Margin Question


Assignment: Interactive Reading"Behind the Bulk" WB p 85-88

Lesson 6 Reflect and Assess T195

Objective:

• Review Vocabulary
• Compare Across Text
• Critical Thinking: Interpret, Generalize, Imagine, and Assess

P195 Reading
Vocabulary

Assignment: WB p 89

Lesson 7 Integrate the Language Arts:

Grammar T196

Objective:

• Analyze POV
• Analyze Cartoon

P 196 Literary Analysis: POV
Analyze Cartoon

Assignment: WB p 90

Lesson 8 Integrate Language Arts:

Vocabulary Study T197

Objective:

• Strategy: word families
• Strategy: use reference source

P 197 Vocabulary Study-word families

Assignment: WB p 91

Lesson 10 Vocabulary: Use What You Know T199

Objective:

• Strategy: word families

P 198 Word Families

Assessment

Cluster 1 Test